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The Niah Caves in Chronological Context: Review of Barker Graeme (editor), Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia. 2013. Cambridge: McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research; ISBN: 978-1-902937-54-0; xx+410 pages, with 279 illustrations and 60 tables. £62.00 (hardback); and Barker Graeme and Farr Lucy (editors), Archaeological Investigations in the Niah Caves, Sarawak. 2016. Cambridge: McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research; ISBN: 978-1-902937-60-1; xxx+562 pages, with 298 illustrations, 115 tables, and a CD-ROM (with an additional xv+339 pages, 76 illustrations and 82 tables). £65.00 (hardback).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2018

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